The recent announcement that Sainsbury’s has tabled a USD 10bn offer for Asda, the UK supermarket chain owned by US retailing behemoth Walmart, brought back memories of Morrisons USD 7bn takeover of Safeway over 14 years ago, back in 2004.

Zephyr director Lisa Wright shares her analysis and opinion on news and trends in M&A, private equity, venture capital and IPOs. Lisa’s insight and experience comes from 15 years of working with products that track deal activity.